{"id":8549,"date":"2012-05-01T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:24:18","slug":"fallen-officers-to-be-remembered-may-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=8549","title":{"rendered":"Fallen officers to be remembered, May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8671\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8671\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8671  \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid navy;\" title=\"FOP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FOP-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brass plaques honor the nine fallen police officers, killed in the line of duty, in Chester County, near the old county courthouse.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County&#8217;s nine fallen police officers range from two members of the Kennett Square force who were fatally ambushed in 1972 by a key operative in the notorious Johnston Brothers gang to the sheriff fatally struck by a milk-delivery train on his way to Phoenixville to serve court orders in 1887.<\/p>\n<p>Members of law enforcement, who are committed to keeping the memory of their fallen comrades alive, are inviting the public to share in their annual tribute. Chester County&#8217;s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 11 will hold its 2012 memorial service on Thursday, May 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lodge headquarters at 218 N. Church St., West Chester.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The event, which will include a presentation by the Sheriff&#8217;s Honor Guard as well as the Emerald Society Pipe Band, typically lasts about a half hour. Speakers will include Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan, FOP president Les Neri, and Sheriff Carolyn &#8220;Bunny&#8221; Welsh. Officers will be available before and after the ceremony for questions or conversation, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>Bronze plaques commemorating the service of the nine officers are permanently displayed on the lawn in front of the Market Street side of the historic courthouse in West Chester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County&#8217;s nine fallen police officers range from two members of the Kennett Square force who were fatally ambushed in 1972 by a key operative in the notorious Johnston Brothers gang to the sheriff fatally struck by a milk-delivery train on his way to Phoenixville to serve court orders in 1887. Members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,924,7],"tags":[1211,1210,583],"class_list":["post-8549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-featured","tag-fraternal-order-of-police","tag-memorial","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}